Container Sea Port Lighting Using Material Handling Equipment

If you have ever been to a seaport it is a busy placethought? As we talked it was apparent that no one
with heavy cranes and material handling equipmentuses solar panels to light up the seaports, they do
everywhere. Containers lined up sometimes 6-8 high,not use wind, they bite the bullet and work of the
it is a scary place for some but for a material handlingpower grid. He had no system that does not "plug in"
equipment supply and services company it is a dreamin the way of lighting. They don't exist.I therefore
come true. The seaports only job is to move freightpropose using all the vibrational energy from the
to and from our shores. America exports all kinds ofcranes, clanking of containers, forklifts, ship motors
goods and imports every thing from car parts toand material handling equipment to power up the
computers.Those containers represent World Trade,lights at the modern seaport. How so you ask? Well,
US trade deficit and the hopeful economies of manylet me tell you what I told the material handling
third world nations busy trying to fulfill the needs ofsupply and equipment consultant. You see, by placing
our economic powerhouse and strong middle classlarge sandwich sheets around the port where you
base. This is why a material handling equipment andwant the light, which are specially designed with a
supply services company salesman is in heaven neartaunt film on the vibrational side and small copper
such waters. But on my last visit I spent some timelined tubes, hundreds of them running perpendicular
in a coffee shop with a container specialist who laterto the sheets, with magnets inside bouncing back and
switched jobs and became a material handlingforth. These magnets will charge a capacitor and be
equipment supply guy. He told me he sold everythinghooked up to an LED lighting system using fiber
you could ever think of that was used in any part ofoptics or reflectors, each one hooked up to a .2 to .5
the shipping business, from plastic wrap machines forwatt light. With hundreds of thousands of lights
small business to shock mats for the inside of truckshooked up in a composite format it will light up the
and cargo containers to protect the cargo, freightroadways and seaport storage yards and since the
and exported goods to foreign shores.I asked himlights can shine down on the yards marked roads it
about lighting and he said yes our company haswould be like daylight without the light pollution
manufactured lines on that too, he then asked me;associated with street lights in large ports, yet the
"How many lights do you need and when do yousame or better light for those working. We must
want them?" What a salesmen, so since I was nothave proper lighting at our seaports for security in
actually buying lights, I bought him a cup of coffee tocase the power goes out.Currently this technology is
pick his brain. I asked him how do they light up suchbeing used in those little flashlights you see
large Seaports and do you have an energy efficientadvertised on television that you shake and they
lighting that uses no power source? He said; "Oh, welight, but you never need batteries. This idea of
have all types of energy efficient bright lights thatlighting up the Seaports is using that technology on a
can light up a stadium, how many do you need?" Ilarger scale with miniaturized parts making up the
enjoyed his assertive "trial close" sales tactics, heguts between the sandwich sheets. Let there be
must have went to Ziggy Ziglar's Sales Seminars? Notlight, thru vibrational energy and there was, the
bad I thought for a material handling equipment andwhole seaport lit up like a Christmas Tree. Think on
supply specialist and consultant, who would haveit.Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board.